Tag: Death Customs

• The Little Book of Burial

  

  Krista Amira Calvo takes us on a journey across the globe with The Little Book of Burial. A playful hands on experience that sheds light on different cultures and their burial practices. Exploring the evolution of burial and some rituals that are no longer practiced but still very iconic and recognisable to us. This delightful…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/06/2016

  Krista Amira Calvo

  anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Burial, Cemetery, Culture, Death, Death Customs, Discussing Death, Dying, Egypt, Funeral, Hindu, History, Krista Amira Calvo, Little Book of Burial, Mourning, Mummification, Native American, Practice, Religion, Ritual, Sky Burial, World History

• Stitching Mortality

  Rebecca Hampton creates embroidery inspired by Victorian mourning practices and the fragility of our own mortality. Drawing influence from Post-Mortem Photography and historic funeral customs each piece becomes it’s own beautiful little Memento Mori.

  Death and the Maiden

  04/04/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Beauty, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Customs, Death Rituals, Embroidery, Fashion, Memento Mori, Mortality, Needlework, Poetry, Post-Mortem, Practice, Victoriana

• Katabira no Tsuji – The Crossroad of Corpses

  When the Empress died at the age of 64—still beautiful—her last will and testament was opened, and shocked the entire royal family. Instead of a state funeral and proper internment, the Empress requested that her body be garbed in the simplest cloth, then flung onto the streets. When people saw her delicate flesh rot away,…

  Death and the Maiden

  12/10/2015

  Guest Post

  Beauty, Buddhism, Buddhist, Corpse, Culture, Death Customs, Decay, History, Impermanence, Japan, Katabira no Tsuji, Kyuaizu, Mizuki Shigeru, Tachibana no Kachiko, Teachings, Yurei, ZackDavisson